Showing posts with label guest book plates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guest book plates. Show all posts

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Our Guest Book

Our guest book wasn't a book at all. 

It was important to me to have some creative documentation of our guest attendance at our celebration. I wanted something that I could display in the house and see every day. I felt a book's covers would hide all the beautiful sentiments. I picked up come ceramic plates at the Dollar Tree and some paint pens at Michael's.

Of course, Martha gave me this idea. I love the variety on the wall here, and I plan to add a few more decorative plates.
How they did it.


Our special touches:
I made a small sign that read: Love is...please tell us what love means to you. 
I thought that glancing up at the plates and reading about love, since it was the reason we all came together, would be so nice. I also finished up with the dates on the top plate shown.

Across the top and bottom rim it reads: Shawn and Leilani married on December 4, 2009, and all our family and friends came together to celebrate our Love on 11. 5. 2010.

Here's the final result:
With our favorite wedding/ Bully photos
 a Bit closer
I took some liberties and filled in empty spaces


To make the paint stick on a ceramic surface, you can use paint pens made for ceramics. Some pens cure with time, and some you may nave to bake. I just used some matte lacquer and sprayed a thin coat on the surface, let it cure, then sprayed a couple more times.

I just love it!